Sluice Over The Braids Sweet Forming

Melinda Braathen, Rachel Borenstein, Lawrence Chit, Yerrie Choo, Kim Garcia, Gosia Herc, Amy Mackay, Joshua Ross - Amoral Poem, Estelle Srivijittakar, Elizabeth Stringer, Reinhart Selvik, Christina Tsui

Organized by The Cold Read

In the November of 2018, twelve California-based artists formed an online critique group – The Cold Read – in order to develop a conversation across diverse practices; Every two weeks a presenting artist uploaded texts, images, or time-based media and the non-presenting members had seven days to form a written response. The works on view in sluice over the braids sweet forming stem directly from this engagement.

As a nod to the supportive critique structure that drove the first year of The Cold Read, the works are installed in close proximity to each other: embracing, teasing, coaxing, and, in short, modifying one another.